From: hekunze@watmsg.waterloo.edu (Herb Kunze)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Wrestling TidBits - 05/16
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Date: 16 May 91 19:49:16 GMT
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- WCW's SuperBrawl takes place on Sunday in St. Petersburg. Matches are
- Ric Flair vs. Tatsumi Fujinami for the WCW Title
- Steiners vs. Sting & Lex Luger for the WCW Tag Titles
- Ron Simmons vs. Butch Reed in a Thunderdoom cage match
- Brian Pillman vs. Barry Windham in a no-DQ taped fist match
- Young Pistols vs. Freebirds for the US Tag Titles
- Arn Anderson vs Bobby Eaton for the TV Title
- Ricky Morton vs. Dan Spivey
- El Gigante vs. Sid Vicious in a stretcher match
- Big Josh vs. Larry Zbyszko
- Dustin Rhodes vs. Terrence Taylor in a computer match
- Tommy Rich vs. Nikita Koloff
- Tim Horner vs. Oz
You have until midnight on Saturday to enter the booking prediction
tournament if you haven't yet done so.
- Andre the Giant looks to be ready to make his full-time return to the
WWF. We've seen some terrible skits of Andre refusing the services
of various heel managers. Bobby Heenan is obviously out. Sherri Martel
and Slick were both ruled out as managers in skits. Jimmy Hart will be
the next manager to claim to have Andre under contract - we'll see.
Andre worked during the WWF's tour of England, doing psuedo-run-ins,
which were really only lumber-ins where Andre chased off managers.
- The Dynamite Kid did a favour for Vince McMahon by working the tour
of England, since Davey Boy Smith had other commitments. This is no
way implies the return of the Kid to the WWF; he's enjoying success
in the All Japan rings.
- Rhonda Singh has been doing a brief tour of All Japan Women, working
as Monster Ripper. She was put over by stars Akira Hokuto and Manami
Toyota to set up her match with Bull Nakano. It's not much of surprise
that Bull beat Ripper and kept her title.
- From a net-fan in Australia (thanks Craig!), here's a transcription
of a newspaper column from a Sydney newspaper:
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"HULK IN HUFF OVER $1M KNOCKBACK
World wrestling star Hulk Hogan has snubbed a planned Sydney tour
because his demand for a $2 million appearance fee was refused. The
giant wrestler, who appeared with Sylvester Stallone in Rocky III,
demanded $1 million a week for 14 days work. Shocked promoters of next
month's event were unable to meet his request so Hulk's handlers said he
wasn't available.
The American performer was to appear with 12 other wrestlers at
Australia's Wonderland at Eastern Creek, in Sydney's west, between
June 29 and July 14. Wonderland is building a 3000 seat stadium so
the stars of the popular Rock 'n' Roll Wrestling series can perform
during the school holidays.
Theme park spokesman Rob MacSween said last night organizers were
upset their No.1 draw card wasn't travelling to Australia.
'Hulk Hogan is probably one of the best known wrestlers in the world
and we wanted him out here,' Mr MacSween said. 'But we just couldn't
believe the amount of money he asked for it was certainly out of our
range. The guy wanted a million dollars a week for two shows a day.'
Despite Hogan's absence, Mr MacSween said Wonderland had still compiled
a formidable line up of American wrestlers."
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I haven't heard anything about who the "formidable" American wrestlers
are that will attend the event. Anybody have any info?
- The biggest story in wrestling besides Jim Hellwig's sexual history and
leaning is the arena war that WCW and the WWF are about to begin. The
two companies have always had trouble allowing each other to work in
the same building and the WWF has used some pretty dirty tactics to
maintain their exclusivity clauses and make WCW seem second-rate.
WCW has decided to take legal action against the buildings and, quite
possibly, the WWF if they do not get dates for shows in certain cities.
There are cities with only one arena where wrestling could be staged
and the WWF is effectively locking WCW out of these cities with their
exclusive contracts. The summer should be quite interesting as this
heats up.
- Finally, it looks like WCW will be returning to Toronto for a house
show some time near the end of the summer.
Herb...